Sam Davies

‘We’re making something on the edge of tomorrow’: Kode9, Jessy Lanza, Lee Gamble, Aya, Heavee and Loraine James on the legendary label’s past, present and future

Since first emerging with some of the loudest, fastest, most powerful music on record, Jlin has ascended well beyond the realms of 160 BPM. Her new album ‘Akoma’, featuring Björk and Philip Glass, is the work of a one-off composer

The late, great producer brought Chicago footwork to a global audience. As his acclaimed album Double Cup turns 10, his closest friends and collaborators reflect on his life, work, and tragic death.

Ahead of his long-awaited album Famous Last Words, the UK’s most mysterious rap star sits down with THE FACE to chat about death, drugs and being reduced to tears by the voice of Neil Tennant.

Raza Tariq and his crew The Polymaths are out to reshape the creative industry in their own image. But is the 21-year-old really the “greatest artist in human history”, as he puts it? Or is he just a very ambitious young man?

D’n’b is back in the charts, and holds a place in the hearts of millions. Meanwhile, these young MCs are at the forefront of the genre’s renaissance.

A house party somewhere in New York city. Teenage skate kids pass a joint around a bedroom. As things start getting steamy, Camille escapes to the roof, stoned.

I was lying in a hospital bed wondering if things could possibly get any worse. It was 6am. I’d almost completely sobered up, about 12 hours after dislocating my hip in a fight with my best mate. The fight wasn’t serious, but he won. He’s a lot bigger than me, but it looked for a second like I had the upper hand. Then he hit me with an RKO. It’s a wrestling move. Look it up. It stopped being funny pretty quickly.

30 years after their debut, four rappers from Oakland, California, remember how they became one of the first crews on the West Coast to make a particularly conscious, lyrical strand of hip-hop, with an album that influenced generations of artists

Review of Field Day festival 2023

600-word review of Saoirse's DJ mix for fabric

Brutalismus 3000 are the hottest new electronic act in continental Europe, a pair of Bavarians lighting up Berlin with some of the most brutal, unpalatable, utterly beautiful rave music since the Nineties, all while calling the contemporary techno scene boring and “unstylish,” writing lyrics about horror films and 9/11, hanging out with fashion’s dark lord Rick Owens, playing to thousands, doing serious numbers on TikTok, and (apparently) drinking blood.

It was 29th May 2020. Killer Mike was eating fish sandwiches outside Bankhead Seafood, not long after buying the restaurant with his friend and fellow Atlanta rapper TI. Joints were being passed around. The New York rapper Noreaga was there popping a bottle of Moët. “I was having a typical rapper day,” says Mike...

Confession: I don’t actually like, like EDM. I like techno, and house, and rave, club and all sorts of electronic music. But I’ve never been a fan of the big, two-hands-in-the-air, everybody-scream confetti-cannon Vegas stuff. Steve Aoki is possibly the most recognizable EDM DJ of all time, regularly playing shows around the world to five-figure capacity crowds. I’m here to interview him, half just to hear about his bonkers life...